The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-20
MPALED ON A TARGET.
Ernest TendJeman Falls Fifteen Fest
on Switch Target,
Which Enters at the Shoulder and Is
Driven Through HIS Body.
Attorney Crawford Of Kinsley shot
While Talking to HIS Family.
Mexicans and Negroes of Galveston
Engage in Battle.

dleman, Bee Line employee, was the
victim yesterday of q horrible and De
culiar accident. While standing on
the platform loading coal on the loco
motive tender, his foot slipped and he
fell head foremost fifteen feet, striking
switch target which entered at the
shoulder and was driven clear through
the body. There was a knob on the
target which had to be filed of before
he was extricated. It took thirty-fiVe
minutes to remove the knob and accu-
INFLATED rust before he could be lifted
on the target, and during the entire
time OF this implement the man with
stood the excrutiating torture, con-
scious OF his stu alton and the efforts
being made for his rescue. The target
was about an inch and half in diane
ter. He was removed to a hospital
and Notwithstanding his terrible injur-
les, the physicians express a hope of
saving the unfortunate mans life.
AN ENORMOUS FIRE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE hremen
were called out an hour before day
break this morning to battle with a fire
at No. IL South street that was assum-
ing threatening proportions. The
building Is five stories high and occu-
pied by j. G. Airport, wholesale grocer
LIB and 125 Broad street, is William w.
Wycks' syrup warehouse. The fire ex-
tended to the Broad street premises
and wrecked them partially. The
total dsmage is nearly 800 900. A loss
of fifty or sixty thousand falls upon
j. G. Alport's stock, $4,000, on Will
liam Wycks and $4,000 on the build
ing. The cause of the fire is unknown.
COwARDLY ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
KINsLEY, Kan, Oct. 17.-An at
tempt at assassination was made last
night on the person Of J. w. Crawford,
a prominent attorney of this city.
While Mr.. Crawford was conversing
with his family in his house, a shot
was fired through the window from the
opposite side Of the street and the ball
entered his body below the shoulder
and came out several inches beyond
and was found on the floor of the room.
1t is not thought that the wound is
fatal unless complications develOpe.
Dectives are hard at work but no clue
or explanation for the attack has as vet
been found.
FREE FOR ALL.
GALVESTON, Tex, Oct. ia dis
patch from Riverside to the News says:
About one hundred negroes and Mex
leans became engaged in fight last
evening, during which revolvers, knives,
sticks and stones were freely used.
Three of the negroes received serious
stab wounds, while many others were
slightly wounded. One Mexican was
killed and two fatally wounded. A
number of the participants on both
sides were under the influence of
liquor.
IN ABOUT THE SAME CONDITION.
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-Thauker Raw
sen, who was shot by his step-sOn yes
terday morning, is in about the same
condition as he was last night. The
attending physicians have a little hope
that he will pull through, but, owing
l.
ness, any prognosis is attended with
much speculation.
HOTELS BURNED OUT.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 1.-THE Kent
and Lakeview hotels, with number of
cottages at Lakeview, near jamestown,
were destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss, half million dollars.
TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. ia special
from Green Bay to the Evening Wis
consin, says fearful epidemic of ty-
phoid fever is raging at Iron Mountain,
Michigan. There are over 100 people
down with the disease and from one to
seven funerals occur daily. The local
physicians are i'll and exhausted, and
medical aid has been summoned from
Chicago.
CHINESE MURDERER IN THE TOLLS.
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Ah Gung, a self
entrapped Chinese murderer, was in
JIlC Gage al LILO ~ OOdOc5
Office here this afternoon, in transit
from Rock Island to Alta, Lake Coun-
ty, Utah. United States District At
torney Ewing was notified by the De-
partment of Justice that a Chinese
murderer was on his way East, probably
via Cleveland. The police there
were notified just in time and laid
detective was put in the cell with him,
and in half drunken way boosted OF
several murders, when the Chinaman
who was only under suspicion, told
vauntingly how he too had gone to the
house of a white woman with whom he
consorted and asked for her money.
When she refused he picked up a heavy
miners candle and stabbed her seven
times with the prongs, inflicting fatal
wounds. The crime was committed in
Alta less than week ago.
ROBBERS REPORTED SHOT.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 15.-It is
reported here that three outlaws
Leach, Trainor and an unknown, were
shot yesterday in the Indian Territory
Last week they robbed and burned the
village of Cakes in the territory.
A CARGO OF CHOLERA.
New YORK, Oct. IS.-The French
steamship Britannia which arrived herr
on the 18th from Marseilles and Naples
and has been held by the health Off
o.,ot;o,r 80 H. ~ - ~ g. W
to the lower Quarantine-four cases O
Gnolera haVing zen Louho ABOARD: In
h;.h $500 70 . sts nhnl 70 Cne AieS H
ago.
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tania. He says the vessel was sent t
the Lower Bay for better isolation froI
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